Monday, February 28, 2011

Scroll down to see details of challenge and Group 3's creations for this challenge.

Our hostess this week, Monique challenged our team to use a technique on their creation. And, we decided to take it a step further and what better place to turn than Pat Huntoon of the Technique Junkie Newsletter?

What are you playing for this week? Oh.....good question! How about we give away 2 prizes this week along with 2 winners??? Pat Huntoon has been very gracious and is giving away one of the Fancy Folds and Motions CDs PLUS a two year, online only subscription (2010 and 2011 issues) for one winner and the other winner will be receiving a $30 gift certificate towards stamps to the Stampotique store. We will randomly draw 2 winners for the prizes before our next challenge on March 9th.

Make sure to stay tuned to the website as both the Stampotique design team AND the Technique Junkies design team participated in this challenge and we will be sharing some wonderful creations using the Faux Barnwood technique over the next 2 weeks here.

So, what are you waiting for????? Get out some papers, some inks, some stamps and join us!

Please remember the following rules when entering this challenge:1. This is a STAMPOTIQUE ONLY stamps week
2. You must LINK to the Faux Barnwood Technique or a technique from Technique Junkies that you chose to use within your blog post
3. Please link directly to your challenge post, not to your general blog
4. Contest will close at March 8th at 5 p.m. EST
5. HAVE FUN CREATING!!

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Scroll down to see details of challenge and Group 2's creations for this challenge.

Our hostess this week, Monique challenged our team to use a technique on their creation. And, we decided to take it a step further and what better place to turn than Pat Huntoon of the Technique Junkie Newsletter?

What are you playing for this week? Oh.....good question! How about we give away 2 prizes this week along with 2 winners??? Pat Huntoon has been very gracious and is giving away one of the Fancy Folds and Motions CDs PLUS a two year, online only subscription (2010 and 2011 issues) for one winner and the other winner will be receiving a $30 gift certificate towards stamps to the Stampotique store. We will randomly draw 2 winners for the prizes before our next challenge on March 9th.

Make sure to stay tuned to the website as both the Stampotique design team AND the Technique Junkies design team participated in this challenge and we will be sharing some wonderful creations using the Faux Barnwood technique over the next 2 weeks here.

So, what are you waiting for????? Get out some papers, some inks, some stamps and join us!

Please remember the following rules when entering this challenge:1. This is a STAMPOTIQUE ONLY stamps week
2. You must LINK to the Faux Barnwood Technique or a technique from Technique Junkies that you chose to use within your blog post
3. Please link directly to your challenge post, not to your general blog
4. Contest will close at March 8th at 5 p.m. EST
5. HAVE FUN CREATING!!

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Our hostess this week, Monique challenged our team to use a technique on their creation. And, we decided to take it a step further and what better place to turn than Pat Huntoon of the Technique Junkie Newsletter?

What are you playing for this week? Oh.....good question! How about we give away 2 prizes this week along with 2 winners??? Pat Huntoon has been very gracious and is giving away one of the Fancy Folds and Motions CDs PLUS a two year, online only subscription (2010 and 2011 issues) for one winner and the other winner will be receiving a $30 gift certificate towards stamps to the Stampotique store. We will randomly draw 2 winners for the prizes before our next challenge on March 9th.

Make sure to stay tuned to the website as both the Stampotique design team AND the Technique Junkies design team participated in this challenge and we will be sharing some wonderful creations using the Faux Barnwood technique over the next 2 weeks here.

So, what are you waiting for????? Get out some papers, some inks, some stamps and join us!

Please remember the following rules when entering this challenge:1. This is a STAMPOTIQUE ONLY stamps week
2. You must LINK to the Faux Barnwood Technique or a technique from Technique Junkies that you chose to use within your blog post
3. Please link directly to your challenge post, not to your general blog
4. Contest will close at March 8th at 5 p.m. EST
5. HAVE FUN CREATING!!

Last week was a fun challenge and Kim had fun picking out her three favorites:

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Welcome back to Stampotique Designer's Challenge this morning. In preparation for the upcoming love themed day many of us will be celebrating, I thought it only appropriate to challenge you with a Love or Valentine's theme this week. I don't know how it is in your house, but in mine, we don't celebrate Valentine's Day as much as we celebrate my husband's birthday. And a little birdie told me that the main man, Jim, at Stampotique also celebrates a birthday that day, so make sure to leave him a little birthday wish in the comments section.

We are going to do things a little differently since our design team has grown, we will be splitting up our design team posts into 4 groups to be shown today, Saturday, Monday and the following Wednesday. That way we share inspiration between the challenges.

Up for grabs, a $30 gift certificate for stamps at the Stampotique store. This week feel free to use any stamps.

Monday, February 14, 2011

Welcome back to Stampotique Designer's Challenge this morning. In preparation for the upcoming love themed day many of us will be celebrating, I thought it only appropriate to challenge you with a Love or Valentine's theme this week. I don't know how it is in your house, but in mine, we don't celebrate Valentine's Day as much as we celebrate my husband's birthday. And a little birdie told me that the main man, Jim, at Stampotique also celebrates a birthday that day, so make sure to leave him a little birthday wish in the comments section.

We are going to do things a little differently since our design team has grown, we will be splitting up our design team posts into 4 groups to be shown today, Saturday, Monday and the following Wednesday. That way we share inspiration between the challenges.

Up for grabs, a $30 gift certificate for stamps at the Stampotique store. This week feel free to use any stamps.

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Welcome back to Stampotique Designer's Challenge this morning. In preparation for the upcoming love themed day many of us will be celebrating, I thought it only appropriate to challenge you with a Love or Valentine's theme this week. I don't know how it is in your house, but in mine, we don't celebrate Valentine's Day as much as we celebrate my husband's birthday. And a little birdie told me that the main man, Jim, at Stampotique also celebrates a birthday that day, so make sure to leave him a little birthday wish in the comments section.

We are going to do things a little differently since our design team has grown, we will be splitting up our design team posts into 4 groups to be shown today, Saturday, Monday and the following Wednesday. That way we share inspiration between the challenges.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Welcome to Stampotique Designer's Challenge this morning. In preparation for the upcoming love themed day many of us will be celebrating, I thought it only appropriate to challenge you with a Love or Valentine's theme this week. I don't know how it is in your house, but in mine, we don't celebrate Valentine's Day as much as we celebrate my husband's birthday. And a little birdie told me that the main man, Jim, at Stampotique also celebrates a birthday that day, so make sure to leave him a little birthday wish in the comments section.

We are going to do things a little differently since our design team has grown, we will be splitting up our design team posts into 4 groups to be shown today, Saturday, Monday and the following Wednesday. That way we share inspiration between the challenges.

This week feel free to use ANY stamps at your chance to win a $30 gift certificate for stamps at the Stampotique store.

First, thanks to all who played in our challenge this last time to use orange and turquoise. There were so many great submissions and Willy narrowed down her top 3 favorites to the following:

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Help us welcome our February Guest Designer-we are so excited to have Gerrie be with us for February! Here's a little introduction from Gerrie:

Hi, I'm Gerrie Johnnic or some may know me as Queen of Grunge (my blog) or my email addy , Iwork4Stamps . I love getting inky, and having fun in my work, I think that's what stamping should be all about.... fun! and of course sharing. What did I read somewhere, it all started out with just one stamp, and look at me now! I design for Artistic Outpost and the Technique Junkie Newsletter. I've been with both companies from the beginning, first as a subscriber for the TJNL and then joining the team, and Artistic Outpost since they opened the store.

I love doing backgrounds and techniques in all my art. I've recently branched out into some altered art, and of course it's all grungy. I live in SW Florida, far from my DD and stamping gives us something to share together, at least that's the excuse we use. I adore all the designer lines that Stampotique carries. The variety of stamp artists just excites me every time I see something posted. Thanks for having me as a guest artist this month.

And along with that, Gerrie created this fabulous card to go along with our current theme of Orange & Turquoise. Gerrie will have some info on the background she created for this card over at her blog Queen of Grunge, so leave her some love and welcome her for February.